NADA New York 2024

As part of his practice, Rhys Ziemba assembles diorama-like scenes in his basement studio – composed of everyday objects such as mannequin parts, clothing, traffic cones, Tupperware bins, garbage, skeleton forms and plastic cups – and renders them faithfully in oil paint. This dark theater of discarded ephemera has recently begun to populate vivid landscapes, sometimes urban, where the artist lives, but mostly natural environments including the beaches and deep horizons of Florida, where he grew up.